How I Make Money With ShoutMeLoud

When I started ShoutMeLoud in 2008, I never thought I would reach a point where blogging would become my primary source of income. In fact, like many others I also thought that any reference to earning money online was a scam.

I was a graduate student holding a B.tech degree in I.T., and looking forward to joining Accenture in 2009. I started blogging as a part-time hobby, and later learned about AdSense and affiliate marketing. You can learn more about how I started as a blogger on my blogging journey page.

In the last couple of months, I have been publishing monthly income reports, just to make people aware of the immense amount of money that is available in the field of blogging. I make almost $31000-32000 per month from all the blogs in my network. One of the most common email queries I get is how ShoutMeLoud makes money. money.

I thought of putting everything on one page so that people could learn something from it and implement the monetization aspect which they are comfortable with. My suggestion is that instead of jumping into all of them at once, you should explore every ad network and every method that I have mentioned one by one, and start from there to build a plan that works for you.

Just to let you know, it took me six years to reach the stage I’m in now. Everything I’ve learned comes from my own experience; I made mistakes and I learned from them. So, don’t just jump on the bandwagon of trying to get rich quickly; rather understand every system individually, and create a solid, reasonable plan from there.

I last updated this article in Febraury 2017, and at the time of that writing, I was running 4 active blogs actively under the ShoutDreams banner, as well as a few other services which still needed my time and attention.

Currently, there are three people who are working on the ShoutMeLoud team. We have multiple blogs in the network (under the ShoutDreams banner), and every blog is monetized using a different method.

My monetization technique for ShoutMeLoud

As many of us are aware, the maximum potential for making money via a niche blog is through affiliate marketing. Simply stated, you recommend a genuine product on your blog, and when people sign up via your affiliate link, you will be paid a handsome sum.

Affiliate marketing provides a fluctuating income, and you can’t be sure how much you will make with this method at any given time. I’m earning about $22000/month from affiliate marketing at present.

I have published the following posts and information in the past, and I offer them again here to give you additional resources to help you to get started. I will also list some of the products with which I am affiliated.

At this point in time, Google AdSense is making around $600 every month, and it is such a relief to have recurring income from our blog. If you have a blog with decent traffic, you can make good money with Google AdSense.

In fact, if you are a newbie and you are looking forward to starting a blog with the intention of making money, AdSense should be among your priorities. Once Adsense starts making $10-20 daily, it will give you a sense of comfort and confidence, and you can start exploring other monetization opportunities.

As mentioned above, I have 4+ blogs running at this moment, and many advertisers contact me directly using a contact form for advertisement opportunities. This is hectic because you have to give details to advertisers as well as a payment method.

Direct advertisements are good because you are saving money by eliminating the middle man. These direct advertisement sales are making me almost $1500 per month.

The key to getting direct advertisements is to add an advertisement page on your blog and give all the necessary details like ad spaces available, ad placement, traffic details and a marketing pitch in whatever form your advertisers can expect. You can see one such example on the ShoutMeLoud advertisement page.

Somehow I’m not very fond of sponsored reviews, but I keep getting lots of emails for paid reviews. I check the software or product myself, and after that I approve it for review. If the product or service is free, I do the review for free. Otherwise, I charge a nominal fee depending on how much a single license of that software or product would cost.

From paid reviews, I make about $1500+ per month. Alternatively, you can always ask for a premium product for free testing, and you can write a review and include your affiliate link, which will make more money in the long run.

I also offered a few other instructional services such as those for WordPress SEO and WordPress theme development, but in time I retired them to bring something better to the table, as the service sector requires a great deal of time, and time is always an issue for a professional blogger. I realized that instead of offering those services for $20-30/hour, I could make the most of my time with blogging consultancy.

Well, these are just a few methods that I use for blog monetization, and there are many more ad networks that I keep trying on my blog network. I continue to play with the latest monetization methods to make the most out of my online journey. I will keep updating this page with the latest methods I find successful, so make sure you are subscribed to the ShoutMeLoud email newsletter for updates.

I’m sure this will help those who are looking for ways to make huge money from blogging.

Do share your story with us. How are you making money from blogging?

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A blog scientist by the mind and a passionate blogger by heart ❤️. Fountainhead of ShoutMeLoud (Award winning blog), speaker at various international forums.
Life motto: Live while you can! Teach & inspire while you could & Smile while you have the teeth.

I am a huge admirer of your blog. I love how updated the blog is. How do you manage the time to blog almost daily? Maybe you can write or vlog on this issue 😉 As far as AdSense is concerned, its difficult sometimes to get approved. Is there any ways you can make more money on Infolinks. as I am not able to earn much from this platform.

It’s been a long time I met one post of yours on your monthly income last year which made me think about to follow up your pathway and brilliant ideas on blogging for money.

Bro! I have nothing to pay in return I have really learned many things about blogging for money and affiliate marketing here from my native land Tanzania,Africa.

What I can offer is just to include you plus your entire team in my daily prayers so God blessing may take you to the higher level next year.

Am still your student and a huge fun of yours and I will still be.You can check out my blog started on money online niche as your student though I still need more advice from you on my niche because here the native language is Swahili and many ad networks only monetize English blogs only do you have any suggestion?
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@Raphael
My first suggestion is to change your theme. The color of current one & the navigation is not great. You can get something from Mythemeshop.com
Also please ask such questions on our forum https://ask.shoutmeloud.com

Hi , Harsh, It is indeed a fantastic post. All of your blog posts motivate the younger population to start their own online Business. I also thank you for your openness and sharing the income report to the public. Whatever you post, it makes a huge positive impact among your readers.

Dear Harsh,
I Have made a blog only because of your inspiration. I am the regular reader of your blog. Actually ! What can I say It’s fantastic. Thanks a lot for the inspiration. I am also an engineer just doing the third year. So I started to do something online. I came through your blog. And I got most of the inspiration from your blog.
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And please give me some suggestions to make it better.
Thanks

Thanks for this piece of information although am a new blogger trying up multiple niches which is tedious and i use Adsense to monetize my site, i was hoping that you could help me with some adsense secrets to boost my blog’s earning… .thanks and have been following ur blog for a year now and it’s part of the reason i decided to create a blog.

Thanks Harsh for sharing this wonderful guide. I am quite new in this field but using adsense right from the beginning. Only earned few cents though. Hope to get more traffic and sign ups ti try the other forms of monetization.